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Meshugger: I finished Kotor 2 and i felt a little unsatisfied...im curious as to what 'has been cut out from the ending' that you mentioned...any links? I didnt really get what was going on in the last few events of the game. Thanks in advance.

Nice, expressive post. I support the petition for Kotor2. I too, feel we have been short handed and am looking for ways to not let it happen again. What do you think of this: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?ac...t=0#entry275604 This is in hopes that Kotor III (as well as other games) will not see the need of having petitions anymore.

You know, i was just thinking (i dont know if this has been done before)...But what if there was some sort of "Gamers Association" (GA) where people like us can join. The sole objective is to ensure that gamers around the globe get what they deserve, quality games. I know we can feel unsatisfied after playing <<Insert your game name here>>. We feel angry, cheated, knowing it could have been better, should have had more patches etc etc. We whine incessantly for better support, fixes, value for money, but our emails get silently dumped in junkmail. Ocassionally we are replied from the divine powers with a **Force persuade** - "...Download the latest drivers and all will be fine..." response. Gamers then make resolves of our own to "bah! Im not getting the next game published from that guy" expecting 'that guy' to turn from his wicked ways. But in the end, we end up realizing 'that guy' doesnt give a crap to whatever we do. Because individually we are just a grain of sand in a vast desert. Imagine having a few million members under the GA...we will prolly have the "uber strength" needed to muscle our 'requests' to publishers. One email to unscrupolous (or however that is spelled) publishers will contain the voice of many. I doubt an email of such epic proportions will be responded with a "get the latest drivers" reply. Im not asking for a game that will fly us to the moon and back, but just that games be released in polished state. Im sure that is reasonable and many of us can agree to that. To have an organization that protects our rights. What do you guys in this community think? I dont think a GA is impossible to establish. And i know that such an organization wont happen by shouting "Alakazam" and snapping fingers. But the question is, is it worth doing? "...Alone, we are one against the tide of many. But together...future events may yet be in our favour. Too long have we stayed silent, and the enemy has grown bold in their stride..." - Jedi Master N_United Shameless Jedi ramblings aside, hopefully this has seeded some 'influence' needed to push something into motion (hope its not a lock and a lifetime ban:). Crying over spilt milk isnt going to solve anything, but here's some wishful thinking towards a wholesome KOTOR 3 and whatever future games may have for us. *EDIT- by the way, KOTOR2 worked well on my ATI rig...so this is not an emotional rant because i didnt get to play Kotor2. I managed to play with the game only crashing once. I think the game plot was brilliant. But getting repeated dialog trees, subquests being short-handed...i think Kotor2 could've been more polished. Playing the game and seeing some areas blocked out purposefully was just apalling. Its like its there, but you just cant play it* **EDIT: This is a brilliant illustration of what i mean from my first edit. SPOILER WARNING. http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=30261 **

Yup, i really love the KOTOR franchise....KOTOR 2 started with a bang and had me really excited...the depth of interaction with Kreia was good...but the other NPCs were a let-down. *****RANT-RANT-RANT***** I did almost everything in the game including: 1) Doing every errand-boy quests 2) Talking with every NPC with the hope of new dialogue options (so much so that i prolly had to jab myself with hyperstimulants if Kotor2 was real-life) 3) Seen some map areas curiously unacessible, prolly due to scrapped sidequests I spent 30-40 hours doing this, only to find that i was insulted for my efforts at the 'finale'. I know some people may say "What, 30-40 hours only?" or "Hey this game is replayable" etc etc....but i felt that the ending didnt justify the amouunt of effort i put into playing the game. *****END OF RANT-RANT-RANT***** Id be lying if i said the kotor2 sucked, but wished they didnt short hand it. I dont know if it was Lucasarts or Obsidian to blame, but based on LucasArts notorious reputation of "screw the gamers, let bring in the Holiday cash cow"...its not hard to guess who i think is responsible for the letdown. IMHO, Obsidian has good repo themselves even though they are a start-up company. Perhaps they should stay clear of LA and have more collaborations with organizations like Bioware in future. As for KOTOR III, im gonna hold on to my cash when it comes out...read the reviews in and out of forums, and then decide whether to get it or not. The reason i got KotorII in a heartbeat was cuz KotorI was an absolute hit. If KOTORIII is another LA Holiday rush-job, im not even gonna get it. Prolly just read up the spoilers, just to know the story.

Cripes... you are either cursed (or some may see it as a blessing) to play Kotor2 for the next 20-30 hours straight...without dying. I dont know any workarounds, my saves worked fine. Does the game have a Quicksave option?...eg you hit a key and it automatically saves? I've finished the game but i didnt bother to find out if there was a Quicksave or not...

Hi, just to let you guys know that my rig with an ATI card is working without a hitch. Heres my specs: AMD 2400+ Athlon 512DDR Gexcube ATI 9600XT Hardcore with 5.2 catalysts Windows XP (SP 2) Before i purchased Kotor2, i did read up on all the problems faced by ATI users...but i bought the game anyway. I expected to face black/blue screens of deaths, video crashes, frequent hangs, save game corruptions (i rotated between 4 save game files). To my utmost surprise, i completed the game with the following minor bugs (I played extremely long gaming sessions most of the time...like 8 hrs straight): - loading crash (happened only once throughout the game) - crash when upgrading lightsaber @ workbench (this happened randomly whenever i upgraded the lightsabers...managed to avoid crashes by unequipping lightsabers before upgrading) - framerate drop (happened in Peragus feul depot, and some other starship...but the performance drop was minimal) I used the "disable vertex buffer" fix in swkotor.ini file - sound was ok, except for two movie scenes where it played without sound - probably some small programming bugs (where key dialog events were triggered twice in different places) - the game launched in window mode, but i clicked "maximize" in the taskbar and that seemed to bring it back to full screen. - I dont know if i was just damn good at influencing NPCs, but Handmaiden and Visas went to max lightside astonishingly fast...dont know if its a bug or anything. Other characters were fine. - Visas clothing did look corrupt once, but a reload got her back in fashion...apart from that, no other graphical anomalies Anyway im just posting this up so u guys know that there is still hope with ATI cards. As i said, i gritted my teeth when i installed Kotor2, bracing myself for hours of uneccessary tweaks and system upgrades...but i was pleasantly surprised when it ran fine. SOME SUGGESTIONS Here are some suggestions with video problems...im not sure what format Obsidian used when doing the movies, but it might help if u guys just updated your codecs...eg get DivX, Xvid, OggVorbis, some of the codecs down at microsoft, etc etc. This may or may not help. WHAT I'D LIKE AFTER COMPLETING Yeah, like what other guys mentioned, an "Uncompleted Quest" section. Some fixes on "Influence"? I heard someone mention its broken. Anyway, it was a nice game...now just waiting for a patch so i can start a new game as "Darth Player"...MuHAha Until then, May the force be with ATI cards..... **EDIT: Missed out a few things**

Is 'xbox emulator' for the PC an unholy word in this forum? I wonder if there's an emulator out there which can run this game on the PC...